I want out!
Look before you leap. This is one of my life’s principles. It’s not that I am afraid to fail but I just don’t want to plunge into something regrettable in the end. It is very easy to commit a mistake, mind you but it‘s hard to face the consequence that lies ahead. That is why I always strive to be mindful of the things I do. My decisions depend mostly on what people may think, feel, say or do. grrrrrr……. Blah.. blah.. Hate it…
Monday, September 28, 2009
Tukar na pud.
My principle in life would probably be the golden rule. However, I can honestly say that I am a hypocrite oftentimes. I hate to treat my fellowmen with unkind words and unjust actions but there are times when I just forget what I believe. This usually happens when I am upset or I have a hard feeling towards someone. I can't control myself in this emotional stage that I could formulate whatever disgraceful things in mind. Sometimes ,I could just utter words of anger to someone I really hate at the moment. Well, it goes to show that I am perfectly human. It's just a matter of learning from past mistakes, forgiving and moving on.
I love to laugh. It’s the only thing that I will never be tired of doing. It’s no to laugh at people’s mistakes but to laugh with people on a clear conscience. To laugh because you admire someone dearly or above all, because you love life.
I love to laugh. It’s the only thing that I will never be tired of doing. It’s no to laugh at people’s mistakes but to laugh with people on a clear conscience. To laugh because you admire someone dearly or above all, because you love life.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Laugh Rush!
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHHAH!
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHHA!
HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!
HAHAHAHAHHHAH!
HAHAHAAH!
Laughter just can't stop striking me!
I feel so addicted!
I feel so hilarious!
I am insane!
Laughter is the best medicine.....
HAHAHAAH!
HAHAHA!
HAHAHAAH!
My third week of OJT is fun... fun... fun....
Yeah....
It feels so good to be this extremely ecstatic..
hehe
Hello everyone.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHHAH!
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHHA!
HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!
HAHAHAHAHHHAH!
HAHAHAAH!
Laughter just can't stop striking me!
I feel so addicted!
I feel so hilarious!
I am insane!
Laughter is the best medicine.....
HAHAHAAH!
HAHAHA!
HAHAHAAH!
My third week of OJT is fun... fun... fun....
Yeah....
It feels so good to be this extremely ecstatic..
hehe
Hello everyone.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
How can I be so slow to realize?
I thought I could never love someone again since I laid my eyes on Jerry Yan during the popularity of Meteor Garden series in 2003. I was third year high school then and
I still remember how my heart tremendously beats whenever I see his face as endearing as an angel on television. I have always imagined myself being so close to him as if I could already feel his breath. Gosh! Those times were so hard for me as a teenager since I knew back then that everything I longed for about him was impossible as getting a trip to the outer space. It felt like my life was brought into a teleserye wherein everybody was getting in my way to my happiness- to be with the one I truly love. How I wanted to go to Taiwan and follow him in every glorious moments that he had been stepping on for his popularity! Gosh! I really was and obviously totally insane!
Presently, I just celebrated my 20TH birthday but then again the feeling is just the same. However as the song goes, "i remember the boy but i don't remember the feeling anymore.." hehe. Well, I have my newly found love. Thanks to my classmate Hannah for paving me the way to know him. The moment I saw him, the love bug in me strikes again! I really am in love. How can I not fall? By just looking at his face, I could never say no to temptation. hehe.. Kiliggggg to the bones and to death! Gosh! Time really matters. Is it a deja vu?
I love you my only one! -- Please give me back my sanity..
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Adrenaline Rush
This day is scheduled for our third consultation for Systems Analysis and Design 1.
Our group decided to meet in school at exactly 7:30 in the morning. For this reason, I woke up at 5:30 am just to make sure that I have prepared everything and to arrive early at our meeting place which happens to be at the Engineering ground floor.
School Arrival
Upon our arrival, we were lucky enough to be the first group for consultation. However unexpectedly, we were not fortunate to have our design phase output checked by our instructor for the reason that I have not yet submitted some of my online case studies. I blame myself for this and I feel so sorry and ashamed. I look forward to repenting my wrongdoings if still be given the chance for consideration. Please...
Our group decided to meet in school at exactly 7:30 in the morning. For this reason, I woke up at 5:30 am just to make sure that I have prepared everything and to arrive early at our meeting place which happens to be at the Engineering ground floor.
School Arrival
Upon our arrival, we were lucky enough to be the first group for consultation. However unexpectedly, we were not fortunate to have our design phase output checked by our instructor for the reason that I have not yet submitted some of my online case studies. I blame myself for this and I feel so sorry and ashamed. I look forward to repenting my wrongdoings if still be given the chance for consideration. Please...
Sunday, March 22, 2009
I post
It was just last year when we first made a move on our Systems Analysis and Design 1 (SAD 1) project. As it was expected, we had a hard time looking for a particular company that would openly accept us to conduct a study. The plan was to go where we had our Management Information System study, the Legacy Group at Bajada St. We decided for it since it’s just a walking distance from the university and assuming that we still had a connection to its executive secretary. However, by the time that we set our feet on the establishment, we were declined of the second opportunity that we asked for the reason that their company was too busy to accommodate what we needed. So we planned for a back-up and to make the long story short, we landed on Barangay Buhangin Station. We interviewed the barangay secretary and fortunately, we were accepted. We proposed an integrated system for the barangay’s inventory, residence and employment record keeping, and blotters based on the information that we had acquired and observed. Our instructor then was Ma’am Tammy and she asked us if we were really determined to pursue the proposal up to its implementation. It was a quite long argument between her and us. But at the end, she accepted the proposal and we were very relieved because at last we would be able to proceed to the next milestone and we did not have to find for another company which was very tiring.
Days had passed, we had our team building and we were ready for the first milestone with regard to the project proposal. One Wednesday afternoon at the fifth floor of engineering building- USeP, we were surprised of Ma’am Tammy’s revelation. She was not going to be our SAD 1 instructor anymore. She had to take part on our school’s newly proposed information system. What????! Certainly, another instructor will take over her subject and that meant something for us, the students. We liked her and just missed a chance of knowing her deeply. Since she studied in South Korea, we lost the opportunity to be able to learn from her experiences. Life went on and with the blink of an eye, we had our new instructor. Charaaaaaaan!!
Sir Randy became our instructor. For the reason that we had been his students for half of our college life, we already look forward for some things to happen. We knew for certain that our school life would never be easy with him. Aja! It looked as if we were fortune tellers. Presto! We were somehow right. On his first glimpse of our project proposals, he doubted if those were worthy of our three years’ learning at the university. For him, those were simple and taken for decades. According to him, it was time for us to get away from what was already obsolete and we had to level up on what was appropriate for college levels. At that moment, I just felt he wanted to let us understand that we had to change our proposals into something that would fit or exceed his expectation. He was just being nice not to directly point out that what we had come up was a trash. Ha-ha.
At the thought of revising our proposals all over again, we almost grasped for air since it had to be a total job overhaul. It would mean that our preliminary efforts would be useless. Thus, we tried our luck to convince Sir Randy to reconsider. We delivered our explanation as to how we had to stick with what we started – the Barangay Integrated System. We told him that we were not confident enough to go for a more technically complicated project since we were still students and that pool of requirements yet had to come our way. We really argued with him but to our dismay, he would never be contented of the said system. He even gave us words of encouragement: “You can do it.” Then, what else could we do? “Gamboa gets what he wants.” Once his mind is fixed, it’s unbreakable and irrevocable and could not be influenced by anyone.
We actually withdrew our first scheme and altered our objectives. Instead, we proposed a web-based system for the University of Southeastern Philippines (USeP). At the initial attempt of presenting it, it was denied. During the second, thank Bro for we had been accepted. Obviously, it was an indication to start the process of project development. For the first semester, we had to include the analysis, planning and design phase. Our decision was firmed – to develop an automated system for the online publicity of tutorial services provided by the students of USeP. In this regard, let me share some things that we had been all the way through:
Planning Phase
Included in this phase were the documentation for the project request, feasibility study, working and staffing plan and the risk analysis. Considering UseP as the scope, we had to initially see and analyze the problem. We had to observe and interact with the people who will eventually be the direct beneficiaries of our project. We labeled such two primary entities, the “service seeker” and “service provider”. The former were those students who wanted to learn/improve on a specific subject such as Math and English while the latter were the ones who were offering subject tutorials. We also had initiated the project’s feasibility in terms of economic, technical, and operational aspects. Lastly, we formulated our risk analysis. We had it all prepared for consultation with our instructor. Happily, he approved of it and marked it as “V.G.”, an acronym for “very good”. Personally, it felt something because it was the very first time we received that kind of remark from him. It made us crave and aim for more. From then on, we were very inspired and eager to work on the second phase which was the analysis.
Analysis Phase
Unlike the previous one, this analysis phase was very demanding of time, effort and ideas. We planned to formulate the analysis and strategy plan, information gathering, as-is system (current system) and the to-be system (proposed system). We thought that this would be simple and we just had to write on what we had in mind. However when we attempted for our second consultation, we were asked for the supporting documents that would reveal how we arrived to that output. Unfortunately, we failed to show our evidences. Again, we had to conduct a thorough information gathering. We distributed questionnaires but again, it had to be validated so we had to find an expert to have it validated. After validation, it had to be approved by our instructor. To cut the story short, it was very tiring and it came to a point that we almost stopped doing what we needed to do. However, rough times turned smooth. Luckily, we made it and we happily received a VG.
Days had passed, we had our team building and we were ready for the first milestone with regard to the project proposal. One Wednesday afternoon at the fifth floor of engineering building- USeP, we were surprised of Ma’am Tammy’s revelation. She was not going to be our SAD 1 instructor anymore. She had to take part on our school’s newly proposed information system. What????! Certainly, another instructor will take over her subject and that meant something for us, the students. We liked her and just missed a chance of knowing her deeply. Since she studied in South Korea, we lost the opportunity to be able to learn from her experiences. Life went on and with the blink of an eye, we had our new instructor. Charaaaaaaan!!
Sir Randy became our instructor. For the reason that we had been his students for half of our college life, we already look forward for some things to happen. We knew for certain that our school life would never be easy with him. Aja! It looked as if we were fortune tellers. Presto! We were somehow right. On his first glimpse of our project proposals, he doubted if those were worthy of our three years’ learning at the university. For him, those were simple and taken for decades. According to him, it was time for us to get away from what was already obsolete and we had to level up on what was appropriate for college levels. At that moment, I just felt he wanted to let us understand that we had to change our proposals into something that would fit or exceed his expectation. He was just being nice not to directly point out that what we had come up was a trash. Ha-ha.
At the thought of revising our proposals all over again, we almost grasped for air since it had to be a total job overhaul. It would mean that our preliminary efforts would be useless. Thus, we tried our luck to convince Sir Randy to reconsider. We delivered our explanation as to how we had to stick with what we started – the Barangay Integrated System. We told him that we were not confident enough to go for a more technically complicated project since we were still students and that pool of requirements yet had to come our way. We really argued with him but to our dismay, he would never be contented of the said system. He even gave us words of encouragement: “You can do it.” Then, what else could we do? “Gamboa gets what he wants.” Once his mind is fixed, it’s unbreakable and irrevocable and could not be influenced by anyone.
We actually withdrew our first scheme and altered our objectives. Instead, we proposed a web-based system for the University of Southeastern Philippines (USeP). At the initial attempt of presenting it, it was denied. During the second, thank Bro for we had been accepted. Obviously, it was an indication to start the process of project development. For the first semester, we had to include the analysis, planning and design phase. Our decision was firmed – to develop an automated system for the online publicity of tutorial services provided by the students of USeP. In this regard, let me share some things that we had been all the way through:
Planning Phase
Included in this phase were the documentation for the project request, feasibility study, working and staffing plan and the risk analysis. Considering UseP as the scope, we had to initially see and analyze the problem. We had to observe and interact with the people who will eventually be the direct beneficiaries of our project. We labeled such two primary entities, the “service seeker” and “service provider”. The former were those students who wanted to learn/improve on a specific subject such as Math and English while the latter were the ones who were offering subject tutorials. We also had initiated the project’s feasibility in terms of economic, technical, and operational aspects. Lastly, we formulated our risk analysis. We had it all prepared for consultation with our instructor. Happily, he approved of it and marked it as “V.G.”, an acronym for “very good”. Personally, it felt something because it was the very first time we received that kind of remark from him. It made us crave and aim for more. From then on, we were very inspired and eager to work on the second phase which was the analysis.
Analysis Phase
Unlike the previous one, this analysis phase was very demanding of time, effort and ideas. We planned to formulate the analysis and strategy plan, information gathering, as-is system (current system) and the to-be system (proposed system). We thought that this would be simple and we just had to write on what we had in mind. However when we attempted for our second consultation, we were asked for the supporting documents that would reveal how we arrived to that output. Unfortunately, we failed to show our evidences. Again, we had to conduct a thorough information gathering. We distributed questionnaires but again, it had to be validated so we had to find an expert to have it validated. After validation, it had to be approved by our instructor. To cut the story short, it was very tiring and it came to a point that we almost stopped doing what we needed to do. However, rough times turned smooth. Luckily, we made it and we happily received a VG.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Think about your approved/proposed systems, is it worth the three or more years of learning you get from the university? Describe how you arrived with
I would honestly admit that the first time this question was thrown at our class; I instantly raised an eyebrow. I could never blame myself for doing that because I personally knew how my teammates struggled to arrive with that proposal.
We had landed on our current proposal by initially experiencing negligence from the company which we actually thought our best choice. It was not an institution owned by a government or a small-time local enterprise. It was a national corporation with big time attachment to its investors. We pursued them politely with our intentions for the company however one representative from them told us that we could never be entertained at all due to the reason that they were extremely busy especially for the fact on global crisis. So what else did we have to take? Explore the city and get some luck. The rest was history. Until we set our foot on a barangay station. We interviewed one person from them and acquired the station’s profile. After having the observations on the regular events inside the building, we arrived with the proposal.
I should probably ask myself,” What have I learned within three years of education?” I have known a lot of theories and the facts regarding IT. Through experiences, I have gained knowledge and lessons. We had programming, database analysis, human resource management, and everything that was necessary for the course. Unlike traditional students whose learning stays within the four corners of the classroom, we were exposed to different types of working environment wherein we could somehow see the big difference between school and the outside world, the industry. Moreover, it had been a common understanding that IT improves the quality of life. Then that was it! What should be the role of Information Technology? When I thought of the proposal, I certainly weighed its worth. Partly, it would be of help to those people working for the barangay station but then there were just few of them. Pertaining to our proposed system, how could this be a contribution to the quality of living when only few could benefit?
Reality check, someone had been right all along that what we have come up for a proposal was not the exact representation of those three years being at school. Besides, it did not justify the purpose of the emergence of IT. On the other hand, one thing that is also true: we could never develop a highly commendable system with just a small amount of time especially when we are not only focusing on one requirement. And also, to program and implement a system is not as easy as to conceptualize it. So please, we need some consideration.
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